The count of my “read it later” list (you find this nifty tool here: http://readitlaterlist.com/) has just reached 800 items. This means that 800 times, I have come across a website and decided that I can’t read it right then and there – reasons being to avoid being further distracted and focus on work, or because there is other stuff I’d rather do, or because it isn’t important yet but might be later and is worth saving. Anyhow. 800 items, which all at some point in time had some importance.
With my Google Reader (which routinely gives me the “1000+” unread items, due to a whole lot of blogs I subscribe to), it is as easy as click “mark all as read” when I want to start over with the intentional information overload – but here, I might just have to reserve an hour or two and sort through the 800 items, to weed out what I don’t need anymore.
Attention really is the new currency.